J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1819-29 Italy and after > Second Italian Tour 1828-9 > Roman and French Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Figures, Including a Man with a Bicorn Hat 1828

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Figures, Including a Man with a Bicorn Hat’ 1828
Folio 55 Verso:
Figures, Including a Man with a Bicorn Hat 1828
D21950
Turner Bequest CCXXXVII 55a
Pencil on white wove paper, 88 x 71 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Child in | red cap’ towards top right and ‘[?Hands | Blue b...]’ towards centre left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turning the sketchbook vertically, Turner depicted several figures on this page, including a seated male figure wearing a bicorn hat. The other figures are less clearly defined, and Turner’s lower inscription is similarly difficult to interpret.

Hannah Kaspar
December 2024

How to cite

Hannah Kaspar, ‘Figures, Including a Man with a Bicorn Hat 1828’, catalogue entry, December 2024, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, February 2025, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/figures-including-a-man-with-a-bicorn-hat-r1210508, accessed 02 August 2025.